Mexican American History Bibliography  
 
 

Comprehensive Bibliography

REFERENCE WORKS  Bibliographies | Biographical Dictionaries | Chronologies | Dictionaries
Directories | Journal Indices | Journals
   
TOPICS Agriculture | Architecture | Art | Bibliographies | The Border
Braceros | Chicano Movement | Chicano Studies | Children
Comparative Ethnicity | Education | Environment and Ecology
Ethnic Identity | Family and Kinship | Film | Folklore and Folk Culture
Gender | General Works | Government Reports | Health
Historical Studies | Immigration | Labor | Language and Discourse
Literature | Mexican American Police Relations

Mexican American Relations | Music | Oral History | Organizations
Politics | Regions | Religion | Repatriation | Resistance
Sociological and Psychological Perspectives | Theatre
Wartime Experiences | Women | Youth
   


Bibliographies

Camarillo, Albert. Mexican Americans in Urban Society: A Selected Bibliography. Oakland, Calif.: Floricanto Press, 1986.

Etulain, Jacqueline J. Mexican Americans in the Twentieth-Century American West: A Bibliography. Occasional papers / University of New Mexico, Center for the American West; no. 3. Albuquerque, N.M.: Center for the American West, Dept. of History, University of New Mexico, 1990.

Garcia-Ayvens, Francisco. Chicano Anthology Index: A Comprehensive Author, Title, and Subject Index to Chicano Anthologies, 1965-1987. Chicano Studies Library publications series; no. 13. Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California at Berkeley, 1990.

Gomez-Quinones, Juan. Selected Bibliography for Chicano Studies. Bibliographic and reference series. 3d ed. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Center, 1975.

The Mexican American: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Stanford, Calif.: The Center, 1969.

Meier, Matt S. A Bibliography for Chicano History. [San Francisco, R and E Research Associates, 1972].

Mickey, Barbara H. A Bibliography of Studies Concerning the Spanish-speaking Population of the American Southwest. Museum of Anthropology miscellaneous series; no. 4. Greeley: Colorado State College, Museum of Anthropology, 1969.

Pino, Frank. Mexican Americans: A Research Bibliography. East Lansing: Latin American Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1974.

Robinson, Barbara J. The Mexican American: A Critical Guide to Research Aids. Foundations in library and information science; v. 1. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1980.

Stanford University. Center for Latin American Studies. The Mexican American: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. 2d ed. [rev. and enl.]. Stanford: Stanford University; available through Stanford Bookstore, 1971 [1969].

Talbot, Jane Mitchell. A Comprehensive Chicano Bibliography, 1960-1972. Austin, Tex.: Jenkins Pub. Co., 1973.

Tatum, Charles M. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Studies. SSSAS bibliographies; 101. 2d ed. Lincoln, Neb.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1979.

Woods, Richard Donovon. Reference Materials on Mexican Americans: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976.

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Biographical Dictionaries

Meier, Matt S. Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Chronologies

Garcia, Richard A. The Chicanos in America, 1540-1974: A Chronology & Fact Book. Ethnic chronology series; no. 26. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1977.

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Dictionaries

Meier, Matt S. Dictionary of Mexican American History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

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Directories

Martínez, Julio A. Chicano Scholars and Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Directory. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979.

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Journal Indices

Chicano Periodical Index. 1967-1978-1988. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1981-1989.

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Journals

The Borderlands Journal. Vol. 3, no. 2 (spring 1980). Brownsville, Tex.: Texas Southmost College, 1980.

Campo Libre. Vol. 1, no. 1 (winter 1981). Los Angeles, Calif.: California State University, Dept. of Chicano Studies, Centro de Publicaciones, 1981.

Chicano-Latino Law Review. Vol. 11, no. 1 (spring 1991). Los Angeles, Calif.: Chicano-Latino Law Review, School of Law, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990.

Chicano Law Review. Vol. 1, no. 1 (summer 1972) v. 10 (1990). [Los Angeles: Chicano Law Student Association], 1972-1990.

El Grito. Vol. 1-7; fall 1967-June/Aug. 1974. Berkeley, Calif., Quinto Sol Publications.

Harvard Latino Law Review. Vol. 1, no. 1 (fall 1994). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Latino Law Review Committee, [1994-.

Hispanic Law Journal. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1994). Austin, Tex.: Hispanic Law Journal, 1994.

The Journal of Mexican American History. Vol. 1, fall 1970. [Santa Barbara, Calif.: R. Cortez].

The Journal of Mexican American Studies. v. 1, fall 1970. [Anaheim, Calif.: Mexican-American Documentation & Educational Research Institute].

El Mirlo. v. 6, no. 4-v. 12, no. 1; Mar./Apr. 1979-Fall 1984. Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, University of California at Los Angeles.

Perspectives in Mexican American Studies. Vol. 1 (1988) Tucson: Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona, [1988].

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TOPICS

Agriculture (also see Labor)

Ferriss, Susan. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

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Architecture

Herzog, Lawrence A. From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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Art

Bibliographies

Goldman, Shifra M. and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, Berkeley, 1985.

General Studies

Awalt, Barbe. Our Saints Among Us = Nuestros santos entre nosotros: 400 years of New Mexican Devotional Art. Albuquerque: LPD Press, 1998.

Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, University of California, 1991.

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Juarez, Miguel, Jr. Colors on Desert Walls: The Murals of El Paso. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1997.

La Frontera = The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience. San Diego: Central Cultural de la Raza: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1993.

Mesoamerican and Chicano Art, Culture, and Identity. Ed. Robert C. Dash. Salem: Willamette University, 1994.

Quirarte, Jacinto. Mexican American Artists. Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press [1973].

Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. Venice, Calif.: Social and Public Art Resource Center; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

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Biography and Autobiography

Bibliographies

Stuhr-Rommereim, Rebecca. Autobiographies by Americans of Color 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1997.

Biographies and Autobiographies

Arteaga, Alfred. House with the Blue Bed. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1997.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio. 1st ed. Santa Fe: Red Crane Books, 1991.

Cervantez, Ernesto E. Once Upon the 1950s. Bethel, Conn.: Rutledge Books, 1997.

Chacon, Rafael. Legacy of Honor: The Life of Rafael Chacon, A Nineteenth-century New Mexican. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Cortina, Juan N. (Juan Nepomuceno). Juan Cortina and the Texas-Mexico Frontier, 1859-1877. Southwestern studies; no. 99. 1st ed. El Paso: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1994.

Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy. Notre Dame [Ind.] University of Notre Dame Press [1971].

Galindo, Rudy. Icebreaker: The Autobiography of Rudy Galindo. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

Garcia, Lionel G. I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1994.

Garcia, Mario T. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona. Latinos in American society and culture; 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard. Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit. The Oklahoma western biographies; v. 11. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Hart, Elva Trevino. Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child. Tempe, Ariz.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1999.

Jimenez, Francisco. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott). El Pueblo: The Gallegos Family's American Journey, 1503-1980. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983.

Johnson, Kevin R. How Did You Get to Be Mexican- A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1999.

Larralde, Carlos. Carlos Esparza, A Chicano Chronicle. San Francisco, Calif.: R & E Research Associates, 1977.

Larralde, Carlos. Mexican American Movements and Leaders. Los Alamitos, Calif.: Hwong Publishing Co., 1976.

Lucas, Maria Elena. Forged Under the Sun: The Life of Maria Elenea Lucas. Edited with an introduction by Fran Leeper Buss. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Newby, Elizabeth Loza. A Migrant with Hope. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1977.

Ponce, Mary Helen. Hoyt Street: An Autobiography. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Rodriguez, Richard. Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father. New York: Viking, 1992.

______. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1982.

Ruiz, David Villar. A Soul in Exile: A Chicano Lost in Occupied Land. 1st ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1981.

Stavans, Ilan. Bandido: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Chicano Experience. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.

Urrea, Luis Alberto. Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Villegas de Magnon, Leonor. The Rebel. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1994.

Interpretive Works

Padilla, Genaro M. My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography. Wisconsin studies in American autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1993.

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The Border

Bibliographies and Research Guides

Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press: Published under the sponsorship of the Association of Borderlands Scholars, 1983.

Valk, Barbara G. BorderLine: A Bibliography of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications; Riverside: University of Califonia Consortium on Mexico and the United States, 1988.

General Studies

Arreola, Daniel D. and James R. Curtis. The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.

Barry, Tom. Crossing the Line: Immigrants, Economic Integration, and Drug Enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico Border. No. 3 in the U.S.-Mexico series. 1st ed. Albuquerque, N.M.: Resource Center Press, 1994.

Betts, Dianne C. Crisis on the Rio Grande: Poverty, Unemployment, and Economic Development on the Texas-Mexico Border. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Border Lives: Personal Essay on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Border series = Serie La Linea; no. 7. Calexico, Calif.: Binational Press, 1995.

Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.

Dunn, Timothy J. The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992. Austin: CMAS Books, University of Texas at Austin, 1996.

Dwyer, Augusta. On the Line: Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border. London: Latin American Bureau; New York: Monthly Review Press, 1994.

Ethnology of Northwest Mexico: A Sourcebook. Spanish borderlands sourcebooks; 6. New York: Garland Pub., 1991.

Fox, Claire F. The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur). Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Center for Mexican American Studies book. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.

Hinkle, Stacy C. Wings over the Border, the Army Air Service Armed Patrol of the United States-Mexico Border, 1919-1921. Southwestern studies. Monograph no. 26. El Paso: Texas Western Press [1970].

Kearney, Milo. Border Cuates: A History of the U.S.-Mexican Twin Cities. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995.

MacLachlan, Colin M. El Gran Pueblo: A History of Greater Mexico. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Martínez, Oscar J. Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Martínez, Oscar J. U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Jaguar books on Latin America; no. 11. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1996.

Martínez, Oscar J. Troublesome Border. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.

Meed, Douglas V. Bloody Border: Riots, Battles, and Adventures along the Turbulent U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. Great West and Indian series; 58. Tucson: Westernlore Press, 1992.

New Views of Borderlands History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Robinson, Cecil. No Short Journeys: The Interplay of Cultures in the History and Literature of the Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992.

Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.

Saldivar, José David. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Tinker Salas, Miguel. In the Shadow of the Eagles: Sonora and the Transformation of the Border during the Porfiriato. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcending Divisions, Contesting Identities. Ed. by David Spener and Kathleen Staudt. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publihers, 1998.

Velez-Ibanez, Carlos G. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Views Across the Border: The United States and Mexico. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Statistics

United States-Mexico Border Statistics since 1900: 1990 Update. Statistical abstract of Latin America. Supplement series; 13. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, UCLA Program on Mexico, 1993.

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